Word: phantom
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...teen seeking furtive sex: Jack Pierce and Dick Smith. Pierce, during his time at Universal Pictures in the 30s and 40s, created the studio's entire monster menagerie: Boris Karloff's Frankenstein and the Mummy, Bela Lugosi's Dracula, Lon Chaney Jr.'s Wolf Man, Claude Rains' Phantom of the Opera...
...Very simply, The Zohan fakes his own death at the hands of his arch-enemy, The Phantom, a Palestinian terrorist (a devoutly nasty John Turturro), ships himself to New York in an airplane's cargo hold, which he shares with two dogs named Scrappy and Coco, whom he puts to sleep with his non-stop monologue. The mutts provide him with a nom de stylist (Scrappy Coco). After landing, a mild mannered young man named Michael (Nick Swardson), whom Zohan rescues from a snooty street bully (his habit is to literally tie bad guys into knots), provides him with...
Anticipation is often the best part of romance, including the form of ardor known as movie love. The dictum applies with its greatest, most poignant force when a sequel to a beloved series is finally unveiled; recall the shrugs and recriminations at the arrival of The Phantom Menace. The Indy franchise never reached the heights of Skywalker mania. It was just (just!) a trilogy that both tapped the innocent vigor of old B-movie serials and turned them into sophisticated thrill machines. Raiders and its progeny were fun without being facetious; they moved with the speed and power...
...backing bands for nearly 40 years, Danny Federici hardly reveled in the limelight. The E Street Band keyboardist--he played organ, accordion and glockenspiel, as the situation demanded--would arrive just in time for shows, then duck out as soon as they finished, leading Bruce Springsteen to call him "Phantom Dan." He first played alongside the Boss in clubs on the New Jersey Shore in the 1960s, and his signature sound can be heard on many of Springsteen's hits, notably 1973's 4th of July, Asbury Park and 1980's Hungry Heart. Federici was a "pure natural musician," Springsteen...
...based alt-rocker named Stew. The other, In the Heights, is a Latin- and hip-hop-flavored love letter to the Hispanic neighborhood of Washington Heights in upper Manhattan. The two shows have little in common except that neither could by any stretch of the imagination be mistaken for Phantom of the Opera...